- present participle of butcher.
butchering
Example Sentences
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Under updated housing rules, students are prohibited from “skinning, butchering, or otherwise processing wild game animals” inside residential buildings.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
The site also contained stone tools along with the remains of elephants and other animals, suggesting the area was once used for butchering prey near the edge of an ancient lake.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Lots of folks are going to blame USC and coach Lincoln Riley for butchering a Knute Rockne-born tradition that accounted for 78 straight games, not counting 2020, the COVID-19 year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
We’ve come a long way from 1992, when Bill Clinton bypassed prime-time and Sunday political shows by wearing sunglasses and butchering “Heartbreak Hotel” on a saxophone on “The Arsenio Hall Show.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
Like Joyce, Swift had learned the butchering process from start to finish, entering the trade as his brother’s apprentice in 1855 at the age of fourteen in a little town on Cape Cod.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
